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Adoption Bibliography

J Sca

Scarboro, Elizabeth. The secret language of the SB. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Viking, [1990].

Eleven-year-old Adam is not happy when he learns his family is temporarily taking in a Taiwanese girl his own age until her adoptive family is ready for her.

J Tur

A boy who came from far away to be adopted by a couple in this country remembers how unfamiliar and frightening some of the things were in his new home, before he accepted the love to be found there.

306.846 Gay

Gay, Kathlyn. The rainbow effect : interracial families. New York: F. Watts, [1987].

Uses interviews with members of interracial/interethnic families to explore problems faced by "mixed" children in such areas as family, school, dating, and adoption.

J How

Howard, Ellen. Her own song. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum, [1988].

When her adoptive father is hospitalized after an accident, Mellie is befriended by Geem-Wah, owner of a Chinese laundry, who holds the key to the events surrounding Mellie's birth eleven years ago.

J Bea

Beatty, Patricia. That's one ornery orphan. New York: W. Morrow, [1980].

After the casual adoption practices in 19th-century Texas result in three unsuccessful placements for a 13-year-old girl, she is finally forced to face the placement she has tried so hard to avoid.

J McH

McHugh, Elisabet. Raising a mother isn't easy. 1st ed. New York: Greenwillow Books, [1983].

An eleven-year-old Korean orphan adopted by a single woman decides that her mother should have a husband.

F Low

Lowry, Lois. Find a stranger, say goodbye. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1978].

Seemingly a girl who has everything, Natalie, at seventeen, goes in pursuit of her real mother.

J How

Determined to be a good big sister, Rex starts spending all her time with the baby her family has adopted, making her neighbor Pinky fear that he has lost her friendship.

F Oki

Okimoto, Jean Davies. Molly by any other name. New York: Scholastic, [1990].

A teenage Asian girl who has been adopted by non-Asian parents decides to find out who her biological parents are.

J Sac

Sachs, Marilyn. What my sister remembered. 1st ed. New York: Dutton Children's Books, [1992].

While visiting her younger sister Mollie, Beth confronts painful memories of the sudden death of her parents and the subsequent adoption of the sisters by different families.

J 362.734 Ban

Eight-year-old Jennifer Jordan-Wong describes her adoption by a family after four years of living as a foster child with many different families.

J 362.734 Sch

A nine-year-old girl describes her life and her feelings about being adopted as a baby in Honduras. Includes information and resources about adoption.

J Joh

Johnson, Angela. Heaven. 1st ed. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [1998].

Fourteen-year-old Marley's seemingly perfect life in the small town of Heaven is disrupted when she discovers that her father and mother are not her real parents.

P 649.145 Sie

J Lit

Little, Jean and Plecas, Jennifer. Emma's yucky brother. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollins, [2000].

Emma finds out how hard it is to be a big sister when her family adopts a four-year-old boy named Max.